Caribbean Compass Yachting Magazine - December 2021

CALENDAR
DECEMBER 2021
4 - 5 La Course de L’Alliance, St. Maarten-St. Martin.
www.smyc.com/coursedelalliance
4 - 9 Antigua Charter Yacht Show. www.antiguacharteryachtmeeting.com
4 - Jan 8 Crucian Festival, St. Croix.
www.vinow.com/general_usvi/carnival/schedule
10 Christmas Market at Royal BVI Yacht Club, Tortola.
www.royalbviyc.orgSBYC:
10 – 12 Caribbean Foiling Championships, St. Martin.
https://caribbeanfoiling.com
13 Public holiday in St. Lucia (National Day)
14 Gustav Wilmerding Race, BVI. www.westendyachtclubbvi.com
16 - 24 (TBC) Nine Mornings Festival, St. Vincent. http://discoversvg.com
18 FULL MOON
18 O’Neal & Mundy Commodore’s Race, BVI. www.royalbviyc.org
21 Winter Solstice
25 Public holiday in many places (Christmas Day)
26 Public holiday in many places (Boxing Day)
30 (TBC) Fireworks in Fort-de-France, Martinique, www.tourismefdf.com
31 Nelson’s Pursuit Race, Antigua. www.antiguayachtclub.com.
31 (TBC) New Year’s Eve Round St. Barts Race,
www.saintbarth-tourisme.com
31 New Year’s Eve/Old Year’s Night: Fireworks in many places.
31 Public holiday in Cuba (Year End Celebration).
TBA Carriacou Parang Festival. www.puregrenada.com
TBA Carlos Aguilar Match Race, St. Thomas, USVI
JANUARY 2022
1 Public holiday or ‘recovery day’ in many places (New Year’s Day)
3 Annual Festival Parade in Montserrat.
visitmontserrat.com/festivals-events
6 Public holiday in some places (Three Kings Day/Epiphany)
6 Viking Explorers rally departs from Canary Islands bound for Grenada.
www.vikingexplorersrally.com
8 RORC Transatlantic Race departs Canary Islands bound for Grenada.
http://rorctransatlantic.rorc.org
9 ARC January rally departs from Canary Islands bound for St. Lucia.
www.worldcruising.com/arc_january
9 - 16 St. Barth Classical Music Festival.
www.saintbarth-tourisme.com/en/classical-music-festival-of-saint-barts
10 - 15 Panama Jazz Festival. www.panamajazzfestival.com
15 Cruiser’s Power Management Seminar, Island Water World, St. Maarten
15 - 16 Martin Luther King Regatta, St. Thomas.
https://stthomasyachtclub.org/sailing/regattas/mlk-regatta
17 FULL MOON
17 Public holiday in Puerto Rico & USVI (Martin Luther King Day)
18 - 23 Barbados Sailing Week.
https://caribbean-sailing.com/event/barbados-sailing-week-5
21 Public holiday in Barbados (Errol Barrow Day)
and in the Dominican Republic (Our Lady of Altagracia)
21 - 23 Caribbean Laser Midwinter Regatta, Cabarete, Dominican Republic.
www.caribwind.com
25 Public holiday in Aruba (GF Croes Day), in Cuba (Birthday of José Martí)
and in Cayman Islands (National Heroes’ Day)
26 Public holiday in Dominican Republic (Duarte Day)
26 - Feb 9 Mustique Blues Festival. https://basilsbar.com/mustique-blues-festival
28 - 30 Grenada Sailing Week. www.grenadasailingweek.com
29 – Feb 6 Manhattan Caribbean Week, BVI.
https://myc.org/cruising/caribbean-week
TBA St. Barts Music Festival. www.stbartsmusicfestival.org/festival
All information was correct to the best of our knowledge
at the time this issue of Compass went to press.
But plans change rapidly these days, so contact event organizers
directly for confirmation. If you would like a nautical
or tourism event listed FREE in our monthly calendar,
please send the name and date(s) of the event and the name
and contact information of the organizing body to
sally@caribbeancompass.com
COMPASS CARTOON
BILL THOMAS
MERIDIAN PASSAGE
OF THE MOON
Crossing the channels between Eastern Caribbean islands, an ebb tide carries
you off to leeward and a strong flood tide creates lumpy seas, so crossing with a
favorable tide is faster and more comfortable. The table below, courtesy Don
Street (www.street-iolaire.com), showing the local time of the meridian passage
(or zenith) of the moon for this and next month, will help you calculate the tides.
Water generally tries to run toward the moon. The flood tide starts running
eastward soon after moonrise, continues to run east until about an hour after the
moon reaches its zenith (see TIME below) and then ebbs westward. From just
after the moon’s setting to just after its nadir, the tide runs eastward; and from
just after its nadir to soon after its rising, the tide runs westward.
The first hour after moonrise, the westerly current is barely negated. The
second hour the flood tide is stronger, the third and fourth hour it’s strongest,
then it eases off in the fifth and sixth hours. The maximum tide is three or four
days after the new and full moons.
December
DATE TIME
1 0908
2 1001
3 1058
4 1201
5 1306
6 1412
7 1515
8 1614
9 1706
10 1754
11 1836
12 1921
13 2002
14 2044
15 2127
DECEMBER 2021
16 2211
17 2258
18 2347
19 0038 FULL MOON
20 0124
21 0219
22 0308
23 0355
24 0447
25 0526
26 0613
27 0657
28 0746
29 0847
30 0938
31 1038
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